Carbon Tracker to government: Clean energy beats gas on every metric - so choose it

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Financial think tank Carbon Tracker has urged the government to take its "foot off the gas" when planning future energy supply

Plans to build a new generation of gas power plants in the UK could derail the country's climate targets and waste up to £9bn of investment, financial think tank Carbon Tracker has warned in a new report...

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